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Dr Nigel Spencer, Mike Mister, and Arun Singh

This specialisation will provide you with a holistic set of tools, skills and frameworks to enable you to step up and lead more effectively. You will develop your own leadership identity, as you explore what it means to lead and learn ways to better manage your time.

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This specialisation will provide you with a holistic set of tools, skills and frameworks to enable you to step up and lead more effectively. You will develop your own leadership identity, as you explore what it means to lead and learn ways to better manage your time.

During this specialisation, you will:

– Learn key techniques for overcoming imposter syndrome, managing high performance teams, and having difficult but important conversations.

– Learn how to give and receive feedback, and develop your coaching skills, as you enhance your ability to energise yourself and motivate others.

– Apply your learning to your professional practices, growing as a leader through deep self-reflection.

By the end of this Specialisation, you will have gained greater insights into yourself, and your team, and built key skills, including vital prioritisation and communication skills, which will help you excel as a leader.

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Four courses

Getting Started with Leadership

(0 hours)
In this course, you will discover the importance of understanding context and its impact on you as a leader. You’ll consider how you define leadership and explore how organisations work through an exploration of the “what” and “why” of your own working environment.

Stepping Up: Preparing Yourself for Leadership

In this course, you will explore the importance of self awareness and feedback, as well as issues such as bias and imposter syndrome. As a leader, it is important to know when to step in and lead, as well as how to establish boundaries and resolve conflict.

Stepping Up: Leading Others

In this course, you will learn to lead a diverse team to achieve high performance. You will explore team dynamics, remote teams, and cross-cultural implications. You will also discover how to lead peers, set objectives, and delegate effectively.

Influencing the Organisation

In this course, you will learn how to effectively manage stakeholders and industry/organizational politics, while successfully mobilizing people. You will also explore how to align your mission with the organization's purpose and manage the politics to influence the organization.

Learning objectives

  • To use frameworks and models to make sense of your current work context.
  • The importance of self awareness in the leader.
  • To go beyond managing into a proactive stance that will take your organisation forward.
  • How to lead your boss.

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